Hygiene Shift Manager

Hygiene Manager

FMCG Background – Chilled Foods, Ready Meals, Food to Go

Highly successful growing Chilled Food company

Location: Ealing area

Salary: Up to £45,000

Benefits: Numerous benefits including 33 days holiday (including bank holidays back in lieu), pension, life assurance, income protection, extensive discounts for you & your family & discretionary bonus.

Work pattern: Night Shift: 11pm - 7.00am

Flexibility to cover other shifts and working in the weekend.

Background as Hygiene Manager in food manufacturing, FMCG Chilled Food environment.

Highly successful, forward thinking chilled food group, focused on quality of service & products, supplying to leading food retailers throughout the UK & internationally are looking for a Hygiene Shift Manager to join the business, due to their continued rapid expansion. The successful Hygiene Shift Manager will work with a skilled, passionate, diverse team & in a culture where employees are supported & can develop their career as the company continues to grow. Innovative & continuously looking at market trends, the company regularly develop new products for the chilled market & work with several high-profile retailers.

This is a great time to join the company to use your experience & skills to help the company change & evolve whilst benefitting from the company’s growth opportunities.

The Role:

• To lead the shift Hygiene Team as first line Hygiene Team Leader, to ensure the completion of hygiene schedules to ensure factory and environment are maintained to a high standard.
•  Responsible for ensuring that the required quality, safety, hygiene, and environmental standards are implemented, maintained, and improved.
•  Responsible for supporting the engineering function in routine preventative maintenance and cleaning and the production function in line set up/line start up post deep cleaning and maintenance.
•  To ensure the hygiene standards, cleaning procedures, practises and equipment are continually re-evaluated in line with best practise, customer guidelines and legislation.
• Responsible for the development and training of all the site hygiene activities with the Hygiene Members to maximise their potential, flexibility, and overall skill levels across the factory.
•  To meet with suppliers to optimise chemical cleaning and equipment to ensure optimum comfort in use for staff and effectiveness for the job. To keep abreast of customer guidelines on chemicals/equipment and to stay ahead of the competition in the use of innovative products.
•  Responsible for ensuring effective communication with regards factory hygiene standards across and between shifts within the teams to ensure optimum performance is achieved. Develop close working relationships with colleagues in other functions such as production, engineering, quality and New Product Development.
•  To respond to audit reports, corrective action summaries to ensure work is carried out to an agreed timescale and manner.
• To present to customers documentation to support the Hygiene Operation including Chemical Data Sheets, Training Records and completion/sign off back to production records.
•  To assist in the planning and delivery of customer audits/visits which may be announced or unannounced and ensure the team are clear on what is required of them.
•  Responsible for ensuring all work conforms to the processes and procedures of the ‘Quality Management System’ and ‘Health and Safety Management System’.
• To support the Head of Technical as required.

Required Experience:

• Previous experience as a Hygiene Shift Manager within a FMCG, food manufacturing/production factory operation – chilled foods, ‘food to go’, pre-packed food, ready meals etc
• Strong understanding of BRC Technical Standard, making sure that they are implemented daily.
• Ownership of responsibilities, ensuring all members of the team clearly understand what they need to do on a daily basis.
• The ability to create a positive working environment with the members of the team.
• Report daily issues including personnel to their supervisors in a timely manner.
• Ensure all staff understand and follow all procedures throughout the factory
• Ensure ownership of duties in the area assigned in all aspects of operation, including machinery, personnel training, and technical requirement.
• Ability to gain good understanding of the operation and products
• High level of reliability, punctuality & flexibility
• Good communication skills.

Salary & Benefits:

The starting salary for this role is up to £45,000 plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays back in lieu), pension, life assurance, income protection, extensive discounts for you & your family & discretionary bonus.